Monday, August 18, 2014

Yelp is Useless and their Review Filters Stink

Update 9-10-14

Yelp still has the same serious problems and defects I mentioned below, the part that is really frustrating is how arrogant Yelp is. Even if you send them proof that they can not tell a fake review from a real review they will still not fix any of their defects. Yelp remains a useless website, and their review filters are worse today than they were a year ago.
Please click on the following link to see another example of how terrible Yelp is.

From: Nancy Feldman - Follow her on Twitter @nygchicklet"Yelp "filtered" the BEST review of my business that I ever
received. It appeared initially, and then they pulled it down. When I
wrote to complain, and the actual reviewer himself wrote to complain,
they simply refused to do anything about it."All calls by me to Vince Sollito, Yelp's Vice President of Corporate Communications, have gone unanswered.

I think that the Yelp reviews are so defective that Google should remove Yelp completely from Google.
Clearly there is a connection at a high level with Yelp and Google, which I do not understand. However just based upon the top rankings Google gives Yelp it is obvious Google is giving special treatment to help Yelp rank higher, and this makes Google look very bad and evil.

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You can not email and even complain to Yelp.

Why is Google giving so much authority to a web site (Yelp) that is so useless and defective?

"Big Brother" Yelp does not even email you if they decide your review is fake, and they remove your review with no warning whatsoever. I wish I could remove Yelp from Google just as easily.

This is what the Yelp web site says about their broken review filter:The filter continually reevaluates its decisions based on the
information at hand. As a result, it's fairly common to see reviews come
and go as the filter picks up new information. Either way, business
owners should probably focus less on any one review and more on their
entire body of reviews. Reviewers, in turn, should contribute to the
site and give the filter a chance to get to know them over the
long-term.

I have been doing a survey of what users of Yelp think about Yelp's arrogant, ignorant and assinine policies like above.
Most people feel the same as I do, Yelp should not use defective review filters that do not work, and many people like me are just boycotting and not even using Yelp any longer because you can not trust Yelp and they treat their users poorly. I mean who would want to write reviews on Yelp just to have Yelp's crappy review filter delete what they write?